Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-09
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
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The new railroad bridge at Waterloo is
completed.
The Ryan murder case has cost Audu.
bon County over $4,000 SO far.
The LeMars Sentinel has been moved
into it's now quarters opposite The Nuckley
house.
Tho limos Central Railroad will
build an elegant passenger depot at Dn-
buqne.
-Chinch bugs are reported at West
Side, large fields of grain having been de-
stroyed by them.
The prohibition law is not enforced at
Dubuque. Twelve drunks were before the
Mayor the other morning.
Lake Mariana, near Council Bluffs, is
said to be in danger of being transformed
into an unsightly quagmire.
"A scarlet woman got drunk and made
Rome howl at Creston the other day, but
was finally induced TO leave town.
An active war has been inaugurated at
Cedar Rapids against the numerous pros
titutes who have recently infected that
city.
An old gentleman named Howell, n
prominent and wealthy citizen of Decorah,
is dead. He leaves 100000 and no rela-
s, tives.
Five Muscatine people recently re-
ceiyed $4,000 each from the estate of n
Pa.
Work on the Cedar Rapids sewerage
system has been inaugurated. The sewers
will in all cases be laid under the centers
of the sreets.
The Dubuque Times company has sued
the State Mutual Insurance Company, of
Keokuk, for $4,000 insurance on loss by
fire last February.
The Council Bluffs papers are poking
fun at the Mayor of that town because his
white COW and calf were put in the pound
and cost him $1.5O.
The annual tournament Of the West
ern Rifle Association will be held this year
at Wapello, commencing August 80 and
continuing four days.
Three young men, having in their pos
session 1870 pocket knives and twenty one
razors, were arrested at Sigourney on sus-
picion of being burglars.
Between 200 and 800 business men of
Dubuque have manifested willingness to
become members of board of trade, and
such an organization will soon be ef-
fected.
The Perigo murder trial was concluded
at Alton recently, and the case given to
the jury. After celebrating twenty-four
hours the jury reported that they could not
ngree.
The Loan, Building and Savings Asso-
citation of Davenport has been in existence
ten years and assisted in the erection of
more than seventy houses of moderate cost
during that time.
#. w. Gurnsey, for considerable
time a resident of Plymouth county, writes
from Washington Territory to the .Senti-
mel and speaks in terms of praise of his
new home in the west.
The jury in the infanticide case on
trial at Burlington failed to agree and the
defendants, Mary Belle Perkins and Sarah
Perkins, were remanded to Jail to await q
new trial in September.
"A petition to the City Council of Du-
buque has been largely signed asking that
a new gas company be chartered as the old
company persists in charging $3.50 per
fxyl,o ~
been offered.
"A Courcil Bluffs young man named
George Meyers, in the employ of J. L.
Cohoon, insurance agent, in the absence of
his employer collected $40O or $500 and
decamped, taking with him some valuable
papers.
Mr.. Herman, a farmer near Wesley,
had his barn, farm machinery, four head
Of horses, 800 bushels of grain and several
hogs destroyed by fire few days ago. In
his efforts to saye the property he narrowly
escaped being burned to death.
II. B. Potter, the new general mana
ger of the Union Pacific railroad, was in
Council Bluffs recently, accompanied by
S. r. Galloway and Mr.. Burns, and spent
some time making an inspection of the
companys interests in that city.
Millions of yoracious worms are OF
work on the shade trees of Fort Madison,
and unless something is done to satiate
their greed the trees will in short time
be stripped of their verdure. The worms
nre from an inch to an inch and q half in
length.